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2 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Since Reece's youth team days a lot of fans have been saying that he would one day be captain of this club and insiders like Jody Morris have been saying it for longer than that. I was among those fans but I now have doubts. There is no doubt about Reece's on pitch leadership, he demonstrated it beyond dispute while leading the 2017/2018 U18s to quadruple glory. He can show that kind of leadership with or without the armband but captaining a Premier League club carries other responsibilities. Responsibilities Reece is not ready for.

For example Reece is very uncomfortable with media duties. In front of a camera he goes into his shell and can barely get a word out. Being club captain is about representing, championing and defending club and squad off the pitch as well as on it. Reece is nowhere ready for that yet. He may or he may not ever gets there but as long as he's contributing on the pitch that's probably all you, me or any Chels fan will care about..

The Athletic's Chelsea journalists mentioned the same thing in their recent podcast and that he is very similar to Kante in that he becomes this dominant, assertive player on the field but off it, he is actually pretty quiet, low key etc. They also said it's a reason why Mount, among the young players, tends to get sent to do post-match interviews etc, even though James has done a few here and there. 

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3 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Since Reece's youth team days a lot of fans have been saying that he would one day be captain of this club. Insiders like Jody Morris have apparently been thinking it for longer than that. I was among those fans but I now have doubts. There is no doubt about Reece's on pitch leadership, he demonstrated it beyond dispute while leading the U18s to quadruple glory in 2017/18. Like all players Reece can show that kind of leadership with or without the armband but captaining a Premier League club carries other responsibilities. Responsibilities Reece is not ready for.

For example, Reece is very uncomfortable with media duties. In front of a TV camera he goes into his shell and can barely get a word out. Being club captain is about representing, championing and defending club and squad off the pitch as well as on it. Reece is nowhere ready for the off field stuff yet. He may or he may not ever get there but as long as he's contributing on the pitch that's probably all you, me, or any Chels fan will care about.

A fair observation. 

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I was thinking about getting FIFA 21 until there isnt a proper next gen version for PES, but I gave up when I realized James looks terrible on FIFA, and they didn't fix his face in the next gen version. FIFA is a joke, they probably scanned the entire Liverpool squad to release promotional videos for the next gen version, while 90% of the game still has the same terrible faces from previous versions.

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